GINS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eastern Bloc, American Century, Warsaw Pact

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Global and International Studies
• Course: GINS 1000
• Professor: Candace Sobers

Document Summary

Outline: introduction: winning hearts and minds (and everything else, global cold war, the rights revolution, conclusion: the american century. Triumph of industrial capitalism: importance of ideas to world history, geopolitics, and society, technology for good and bad. Imperfect information: each side would interpret the opposite side to their own preconceived notion. After the war, there was creation of soviet satellites. Sovietization: replace existing governments with soviet style governments, (cid:498)elections(cid:499, declare a socialist republic, happened in bulgaria, romania, albania, czecho slovakia. Invaded iran to force german operations: replaced with mohammed , soviet style republic in iraq, only left when 3 resolutions were signed, access to important resources. Reason: soviet union paranoid of another invasion: stalin (cid:498)cordance sonataire(cid:499, annoyed with us (cid:498)martial plan(cid:499) in eastern europe. 1947 harry truman: asked congress for million, democrat asking a republican government, containment (truman doctrine) Startling speeches: (cid:498))ron curtain(cid:499) speech (cid:523)(cid:887) mar 1946) Churchill describes making line between eastern europe and.